As a Solutions Architect at Solace, I work with several Capital Markets customers. These customers range from large investment banks to leading hedge funds. Historically, these firms have been always at the forefront of cutting-edge technology with special focus on performance and resiliency. For several decades, they have invested in large scale infrastructure for heavy […]
In the last few years, event-driven architecture has gained tremendously in popularity. COVID-19 being a major factor for that rise which forced companies from many industries, especially retail, to adopt digital transformation. As companies rushed to establish their presence online, some had the appropriate tools and skills to manage the migration while others did whatever […]
My last post talked about the importance of event-driven architecture and it endorsed having a hybrid architecture consisting of both RESTful and streaming APIs. In this post, I would like to walk you through a simple demo that shows benefit of using a broker, such as Solace PubSub+, that can handle multiple open protocols and […]
I love REST-based applications, especially when I am developing a new app and I need to get some data from another application. Getting a response from their team that their application has a REST API which is well documented and accessible via Swagger API is the best thing ever…besides having some sunny days after a […]
In one of my previous posts, I discussed the evolution of application architecture from monolithic to service-oriented to microservices and eventually, to event-driven. I concluded that post with a brief introduction to event-driven architecture (EDA) and promised to dive deeper into the topic in a future post. Well, here we are. In this post, I […]
If you have been developing or been involved with application architecture in one way or another, then you have definitely seen a lot of changes in the last few years. So many different types of architectures and technologies have come and gone that sometimes it can be hard to keep track of them. However, when […]